Humanitarian response by national governments to the 2010 Haiti earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:32 1 Americas
00:01:42 1.1 North America
00:14:10 1.2 Central America and the Caribbean
00:22:42 1.3 South America
00:30:56 2 Europe
00:59:10 3 Africa
01:04:56 4 Middle East
01:13:37 5 Asia
01:13:46 5.1 Central Asia
01:14:38 5.2 South Asia
01:16:19 5.3 East Asia
01:19:49 5.4 Southeast Asia
01:23:30 6 Oceania
01:25:08 7 Other entities
01:26:27 8 See also
01:26:36 8.1 2010 Haiti earthquake
01:27:12 8.2 Humanitarian response
01:27:40 8.3 Benefits and fundraising
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The humanitarian response by national governments to the 2010 Haiti earthquake included numerous national governments from around the world pledging to send humanitarian aid to the Haitian people. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and ReliefWeb are coordinating and tracking this aid.More than six months later after the earthquake, less than one-tenth of the money that was pledged by foreign governments to the United Nations special fund for the Haiti quake was actually received. As of 20 July 2010 of all the nations that had pledged money to this fund only 20 countries had actually sent any money: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States. Others have sent supplies and/or personnel instead of money, and/or they pledged or sent money outside of the UN channels.
Initial pledges of assistance were tracked by the US Congressional Research Service. In 2015, the United Nations reported that US$13.34 billion had been earmarked for Haiti through 2020, though in the two years following the quake, less than half of that amount had been deployed.